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Ammianus Marcellinus was a Roman historian who wrote during Late Antiquity.
Biography
He was born about 325‑330, probably at Antioch (the probability hinges on whether he was the recipient of a surviving letter to a Marcellinus from a contemporary, Libanius (Matthews 1989: 8). The date of his death is unknown, but he must have lived till 391, as he mentions Aurelius Victor as the city prefect for that year. The surviving books of his valuable history cover the years 353‑378; the work is sometimes referred to by a Latin title as Res Gestae.
He was "a soldier and also a Greek" ut miles quondam et graecus (A.M. 31.16.9) he tells us, and his enrollment among the elite protectores domestici (household guards) shows that he was of noble birth. He entered the army at an early age, when Constantius II was emperor of the East, and was sent to serve under Ursicinus, governor of Nisibis in Mesopotamia, and magister militiae.
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